US669699A - Hame-hook. - Google Patents

Description

" No. 669,699. Patented Mar. l2, mm.

0. JACKSDN.

NAME HOOK.

(Application filed Aug. 14, 1900.

(No Model.)

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DON JACKSON, OF PLEASANTGROVE, CALIFORNIA.

HAM E-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 669,699, dated March 12, 1901.

Application filed August 14, 1900. berial No. 26,810. (No model.)

To (Jail? whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DON JACKSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pleasantgrove, county of Sutter, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Hame' Hooks; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a device and attachment for the hames of harness whereby con nection can be readily made with the traces or chains of the draft appliances.

The invention consists of'a twopart hook, one of which has one end bent to engage the staple or fastening by which it is connected with the hame and the other end has a slot 'with an opening at one side by which the connecting-link of the chain is introduced. The other leaf is pivoted to the first one and turnable about the pivot-pin and has a correspondingly-shapedslot with an opening at one side which allows it to interlock with the first-named leaf, and the two leaves are so bent that the interlocking portions cross each other upon the opposite side from the pivoted portion, thus forming a solid lock and brace when closed.

My invention also comprises details of construction which will be more fully explained by reference to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view of the hooks being opened out. Fig. 2 shows a rear view of the same being closed.

The object of this invention is to provide a convenient, strong, and easily-manipulated attachment for hames which when closed presents no projecting points or angles which would be liable to catch or become entangled with other portions of the harness.

In the drawings, A represents the hame, having the stout link 2, by which the connection of the draft -,chains with the hame is made.

3 is one of the plates of the connecting device, termed hame-hook, and this plate has one end coiled around, so as to make an elongated hook 4, which can be easily engaged with or disengaged from the link 2. This part of the hook has made near the opposite end an elongated slot 5, extending lengthwise of the plate, and at one side of this slot is an inclined open channel 6, through which the chain-link of the trace may beintrodnced or removed. The other plate 7is pivoted to the first-named plate, as shown at 8, and has made in it a slot 9, which is similar in shape to the slot 5 of the first-named plate, and it has through the side which is adjacent to the first plate a slot 10, similar to the slot 6 and so made that the two slots 5 and 9 coincide when the plates are closed by turning the plate 7 about the pivot-pin 8. The opening of the plate 7 allows the two plates to be separated sufficiently for a link to be introduced between them, after which by closing the plates together the link will be confined in the longitudinal slots 5 and 9. In order to so look these plates when closed that they will act as a single hook and to prevent any side strains from pulling them apart transversely, these plates are ofiset or bent, as shown at 11, to a degree equal to the thickness of the plates, so that two sides of the plates are contiguous where they are pivoted, and the closing of the plates brings the two opposite sides in contact at the point where the slots are made through them, or, in other words, the plates cross each other about intermediate of their length, so that they are firmly interlocked and are prevented from being pulled apart by any transverse strain which may occur.

The walls of the open slots 6 and 10 are beveled or inclined, as shown. This bevel may be either single, as shown in Fig. 1, or double, as shown in Fig. 2, and when the plate 7 is turned to one side, so as to stand at approximately right angles with the plate 3, the two slots 6 and 10 will be opened and separated, so that the chain-link 12 can be introduced into the slot and the longitudinal channel 5. The plate 7 being then closed to interlock with the plate 3, the slotted portion 10 of this plate moving about the fulcrum-pin 8 follows the line of the slot 6, and one edge of the slot passes upon one side of the plate 3 and the other edge upon the other side, so that when closed the two plates lie together and the link of the chain would be confined in the single longitudinal slot which is formed by thus closing the plates together, and one edge of each of the inclined slots 6 and 10 lies upon one side of the plate 3 and the other edge upon the opposite side, as

plainly shown in the drawings. This produces a smooth link without any projecting angles or points to catch upon any portion of the harness, and no transverse strain will be able to separate the plates, as might be the case if'one was pivoted entirely upon one side of the other.

By forming the connection with the hame integral with one of the plates the strain is removed from the pivot pin of the two plates and the draft comes directly upon the plate itself, so that even if a pivot-pin be broken off the connection would remain intact.

Having-th us described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A hame-hook formed of two flat plates, one end of one of which is bent into a scroll to engage the haine-staple, and the other end formed with a longitudinal slot, a diagonal 20 slot opening from this through one side of the plate, a second plate correspondingly slotted having a pivot connection between the ends of the first plate about which it is turnable,

said plates having their central portions bent 25 posite faces are contiguous upon the other 30 side of the slots.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

DON' JACKSON.

Witnesses:

S. H. NOURSE, JESSIE G. BRODIE.

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